Re: All-noun langs, was: Syntaxy-Turvy
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 30, 2000, 8:34 |
At 10:59 29/06/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I think some of these variants would be possible even with 'zero
>morphology'.
>
I've heard of some languages that could use zero-copula constructions with
prepositional phrases, allowing for sentences like "I to Paris" for "I go
to Paris", making zero-copula sentences in fact active! So zero-copula
sentences really are not restricted! I've read that this construction was
possible in Russian. Am I right Vasiliy?
Christophe Grandsire
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